Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
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The Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms is a UK government post usually held by the Government Chief Whip in the House of Lords. Prior to 17 March 1834, the Gentlemen-at-Arms were known as the Honourable Band of Gentlemen Pensioners.
[edit] List of Captains of the Gentlemen-at-Arms
- 1509: Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex
- 1539: Sir Anthony Browne
- 1549: John Braye, 2nd Baron Braye
- 1550: William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
- 1553: Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
- 1558: Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon
- 1596: George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
- May 1603: Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
- 1615: Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
- 1616: Theophilus Howard, Lord Howard de Walden; succeeded as 2nd Earl of Suffolk 28 May 1626
- May 1635: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
- 1643: Francis Leigh, 1st Baron Dunsmore, created Earl of Chichester 3 June 1644
- temp. Charles II: William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
- 1660: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland
- 1661: George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich
- 1662: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Cleveland
- 1667: John Belasyse, 1st Baron Belasyse
- 1672: Thomas Belasyse, 2nd Viscount Fauconberg
- 1674: Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
- 1684: Robert Leke, 3rd Earl of Scarsdale
- 1687: Theophilus Hastings, 7th Earl of Huntingdon
- temp. William III: John Lovelace, 3rd Baron Lovelace
- 1693: Ralph Montagu, 1st Earl of Montagu
- 1695: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
- 13 January 1712: Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort
- 1714: Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans
- 1726: William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, succeeded as 3rd Duke of Devonshire 4 June 1729
- 1731: Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, 4th Earl of Cork
- 1734: John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu
- 1740: Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
- 1742: Allen Bathurst, 1st Baron Bathurst
- 1745: John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart, created Earl of Buckinghamshire 5 September 1746
- 1756: John Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley of Stratton
- 17 July 1762: George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield
- 31 December 1772: George Edgcumbe, 3rd Baron Edgcumbe, created Viscount Mount Edgcumbe and Valletort 5 March 1781
- 29 March 1782: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley
- 14 May 1783: George Bussy Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey
- 31 December 1783: George Townshend, 16th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, created Earl of Leicester 18 May 1784
- 1797: George Evelyn Boscawen, 3rd Viscount Falmouth
- 1799: Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford
- 1804: George Parker, 4th Earl of Macclesfield
- 19 February 1806: George Richard St John, 3rd Viscount Bolingbroke, 4th Viscount St John
- 19 March 1808: Richard Edgcumbe, 2nd Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
- 11 April 1812: James George Stopford, 3rd Earl of Courtown
- 1827: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
- 8 December 1830: Thomas Foley, 3rd Baron Foley
- 1 May 1833: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 29 December 1834: Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford
- 6 May 1835: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 8 September 1841: John George Weld Weld-Forester, 2nd Baron Forester
- 24 July 1846: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 27 February 1852: John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich
- 30 December 1852: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 26 February 1858: Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot
- 28 June 1859: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 10 July 1866: Charles Bennet, 7th Baron Ossulston
- 20 March 1867: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
- 12 December 1868: Thomas Henry Foley, 4th Baron Foley
- 27 December 1869: George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby
- 20 April 1871: Francis Thomas de Grey Cowper, 7th Earl Cowper
- 1 January 1874: Henry Edward Fox-Strangways, 5th Earl of Ilchester
- 2 March 1874: William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter
- 4 February 1875: Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury
- 28 May 1877: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
- 3 May 1880: Alexander William George Duff, 6th Earl Fife
- 21 January 1881: Charles Gordon, 11th Marquess of Huntly
- 27 June 1881: Charles Robert Wynn-Carrington, 3rd Baron Carrington
- 6 July 1885: George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry
- 10 February 1886: Charles Douglas Richard Hanbury-Tracy, 4th Baron Sudeley
- 5 August 1886: George William Barrington, 7th Viscount Barrington
- 24 November 1886: Robert St Clair-Erskine, 4th Earl of Rosslyn
- 11 August 1890: Charles Alfred Worsley Anderson-Pelham, 4th Earl of Yarborough
- 25 August 1892: George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon
- 13 March 1894: Edwyn Francis Scudamore-Stanhope, 10th Earl of Chesterfield
- 16 July 1895: Henry Strutt, 2nd Baron Belper
- 18 December 1905: William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
- 31 July 1907: Thomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman
- 26 July 1908: Edward Arthur Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke
- 20 November 1922: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
- 22 January 1924: Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore
- 1 December 1924: George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon
- 26 June 1925: Ivor Miles Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth
- 1 January 1929: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
- 5 June 1929: Labour government - post vacant?
- 12 November 1931: George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
- 31 May 1940: Henry Snell, 1st Baron Snell
- 21 April 1944: vacant.
- 22 March 1945: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
- 4 August 1945: Charles George Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon
- 18 October 1949: George Robert Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd
- 5 November 1951: Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue
- 27 June 1957: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
- 21 October 1964: Malcolm Newton Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd
- 29 July 1967: Frank Beswick, Baron Beswick
- 24 June 1970: Michael John Hicks-Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn
- 11 March 1974: Annie Patricia Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness Llewelyn-Davies
- 6 May 1979: Bertram Stanley Mitford Bowyer, 2nd Baron Denham
- 22 May 1991: Thomas Alexander Fermor-Hesketh, 3rd Baron Hesketh
- 16 September 1993: Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater
- 20 July 1994: Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde
- 6 May 1997: Denis Victor Carter, Baron Carter
- May 2002: Bruce Joseph Grocott, Baron Grocott
